Can Altera NIOS be synthesized on non-cyclone/stratix FPGAs?

We have Quartus III at school, but only have the Altera UP2 development
board to work with.  It only has 70k gates, so Im guessing it
wont be enough.

Also does anyone know of a low cost (<$300) development board that can be used
instead?

Thanks!
Ben

Assuming you have access to the Nios, the Parallax Cyclone Fastpack is a
neat little board @ $195.00.  Has a speaker and leds and 8Mbit serial flash.

They have lots of other boards at different levels too.  Don't know if they
discount to schools.  I have a friend who has built a successful commercial
board with Nios on the same Cyclone chip.

Ken

"Ben Nguyen" <benn686@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We have Quartus III at school, but only have the Altera UP2 development
> board to work with.  It only has 70k gates, so Im guessing it
> wont be enough.
>
> Also does anyone know of a low cost (<$300) development board that can be
used
> instead?
>
> Thanks!
> Ben